Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-17

reading aloud TO him while asleep. The
organ Of vision was alone active.
COlerdge, the dreaming philosopher.
composed "CubIa Khan" zone Of his
poems while fast asleep. Next morning
ne wss sure there mad been an acquisition
10 his literature, but wss 200 negligent to
write the stanZ1s. a few lays afterNard
he attempted 20 REGAL the verses, bur
they had for the most part fed, and the
poem as it now stands is but 9 fragment
Every one knows thl. extreme fatigue
induces sleep, aat this in spite Of sur
rounding relations, Wlich in ordinary
circumstances would hinder anY one
from resting. Previous 10 the snOrten-
| ing of the hours Of work factory children
frequently fell asleep while working 81
the machines, although veil aware that
they would incur severe punishment by
doing so. The North American Indian,
at the stake Of torture, has been known
to 90 20 sleep on the least remission of
agony, and will slumber until the ire Is
applied to awaken him.
It is on record that during the heat Of
| the battle Of the Nile some OF the over
| fatigued boys fell asleep upon the deck,
and during the attack upon R3ngoOn, in
| the Burmese war, the c4ptslu of one of
/ the steam fTigates most aCtiTely engaged,
worn out by the excess of continued
mental tension, fell asleep and remained
perfectly unconscious for two hours
within yard of his largest guns, which
we're being worked theoretically the
whole period.
Habit and time, place and Circumstan-
ces predispose US ali TO sleep. The Gel
ebrated pedestrian, Captain Barclay,
when accomplishing his extraordinary
feat OF walking 1000 miles in as many
successive hours, obtained st last such s
mastery over himself that he fell asleep
the instant he lay down. The Doctors
wife never hears tle door bell during the
night, although tue noise IS sunl lent to
rouse the weaIied husband; hut should r
child in the nursery cry, then tle mocaer,
OblViGus to all other sounds. hears a.
once the infants voice.
II Is related that tlc AyJe F4ria, WlJ
acquired nOtoriety through his power of
inducing somnEmbuIism, was accus-
toned merely TO place his patient in an
armchair, after telling him ID smut his
eyes and collect himself, and pronounce
in g strong voice, "DOrmeZ," which was
, usually successful.
There seems TO be no limit 10 the Won
} ders displayed by man in sleeping. Con
dOrcet, the mathematician, solved ore Of
| MS most difficult problems while asleep
"a problem, too, which puzzled him dur
ing MS waking hours. a professor OF
theology IN the University Of Basic once
wrote q sermon while asleep; he found it
on his desk next morning. The preced-
irg night he could not grapple with the
subject as he desired, but the perform
anCe Of ms sleeping hours was quite sat-
isfactory TO him.
Jenny Lind was one OF the most cele-
: orated singers of her time. No one could
, rival her powers except factory girl,
: who sang sometimes better than the
I famous Jenny. The girl could not at
t tempt any difficult piece when awake, bu'
when sleeping sac sang 50 correctly, sc
like the renowned artistic, that it was diff
. hCult TO distinguish between their voices
on one occasion Mile. Lind heard the
girl, and even tested the accuracy of hel
powers by giving her q long and elabor-
ate chromatic exercise. This the sleep
f ing girl performed, mucn 70 the wonder
Of the famous Swedish singer.